Omar serves as deputy chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and has advocated for a $15 minimum wage, universal healthcare, student loan debt forgiveness, the protection of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar has been eerily silent on Minnesota's $1 billion welfare fraud scheme, which was largely centered in her Minnesota district.
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has branded Donald Trump as a national embarrassment after he lectured a crowd of supporters last night about places he considers to be “hellhole” and “s******e ...
WASHINGTON— Today, Congresswomen Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Congressman Troy A. Carter, Sr. (D-LA), Lateefah Simon (D-CA), and Dina Titus (D-NV), leaders in the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, introduced the Realizing Equitable & Sustainable Participation in Emerging Cannabis Trades (RESPECT) Resolution.
Ilhan Omar (born October 4, 1982, Mogadishu, Somalia) is an American policy analyst, organizer, public speaker, advocate, and politician who began representing Minnesota’s 5th congressional district, which includes Minneapolis and surrounding suburbs, in 2019.
Ilhan Omar is a Somali-American politician who is one of the first Muslim women to be elected into the United States Congress. As the representative of the 5th Congressional District of Minnesota since 2019, she has emerged as a familiar face in debates on immigration reform, social justice, economic equity, and American foreign policy. Omar has a reputation for being an outspoken person ...
